PSP Media Hub: How to use your PSP for movies, music and more

PSP Media Hub: How to use your PSP for movies, music and more

Sony's PSP (PlayStation Portable) is a potent handheld that can handle almost any form of media you can throw at it.

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Thinking of investing in a PSP? The games are great, but a big attraction of the PSP is its ability to handle music, movies, and photos. Here are four ways to make your PSP the centerpiece of your media collection.

- UMD movies are dirt cheap. UMD movies such as "Clerks" and "Full Metal Jacket" go for under ten dollars at many retailers. These movies work just like any video game UMD; simply open the disc port on your PSP, slide in your UMD movie, and it should boot up immediately.

-UMDs aren't that inferior to DVDs. While the UMD (or Universal Media Disc) doesn't have as much space as a regular DVD, thanks to the PSP's stellar compression, there's plenty of room for movies, audio choices, subtitles, commentaries, and even special features such as deleted scenes and trailers.

- Tunes and Photos. You can also upload your music and photos to your PSP. The PSP's Memory Stick works with digital cameras, and will fit into any SD Memory Card port, so putting your favorite photo collection or music album is as simple as dragging and dropping.

--Music too With its latest update, the PSP supports both MP3 and WMA music files, and when used solely a music player, the PSP's battery life extends to a whopping ten hours! The PSP is also equipped with a music visualizer, much like the PS3 for colorful, hypnotic renditions of your favorite tunes.

- Convert your videos. The PSP can be a bit more picky when it comes to supported video types, however, with the handheld supporting MPEG4, X-MP4, MPEG, X-MPEG, M4V, and iTunes videos.

-Media Manager is your friend. Thankfully, Sony offers a free Media Manager that you can download onto your computer from the official PlayStation site at no cost to help you convert and organize your files.

- Connecting to the PS3. You can register your PSP with a PlayStation 3 console, which enables you to wirelessly download videos, pictures and even game demos straight to your PSP console via the Remote Play feature.

- Connecting to your PC. You can also simply hook up your PSP to a personal computer via a Standard-A/Mini-B USB cable, but how easy this is may depend on your operating system. If you're running a PC, simply plug your PSP into your computer's USB port and your rig should recognize the PSP as an external hard drive. For all of you Mac users, there are a number of workaround solutions (including iPSP by the good people at RnSK Softronics)

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DarthKratos_

mhm I wouldn't bother on investing in a psp. I rather invest on the iPod Touch which is truly the "center" of multimedia. Ipod Touch does everything and now plays 2D/3D games. It's also more portable...

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psp stans for: P personal, S for super, and P stands for product!!!!!!!!personal super product

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